In years directly after the Great Depression, a majority of the population was left broke and desperate for work. ... The reason this laborer wrote to the Secretary of Labor, is because he hopes that it will bring attention to FDR that improving working conditions are just as important as fixing unemployment, which almost reached 30% during the Great Depression. ... Hoover also states that FDR's "spoils system" and "emotional economics" will ultimately lead to "a mixture of European ideas, flavored with our native predilection to get something for nothing" (I...

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Unlike the president before him, Herbert Hoover, who blamed foreign countries for America's hardship and who wanted to see the economy be left alone for it to rise again, Roosevelt wanted to deal with the crisis hands-on, and with each troubled issue separately. ... His first initiative was to end the banking industry crisis sparked by the depression. With his and the New Deal's very pragmatic way of dealing with problems, Roosevelt simply closed all banks, then reopening the ones seemingly strong enough to survive, while closing the weak ones, and financially aiding those with momen...

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